US 9,960,383 B2 · Display device

Abstract

A display device in the present invention includes a display panel (320) which is provided with a display screen, a T-substrate (350) which is arranged in a predetermined range narrower than the display panel (320) at the back side of the display panel (320), first flexible printed circuit substrates (450) which extend downward from the upper end of the display panel (320) and are connected to the T-substrate (350), and second flexible printed circuit substrates (460) which extend upward from the lower end of the display panel (320) and are connected to the T-substrate (350) in order to achieve more reduction in thickness when the display panel and the circuit substrate are arranged together.

Claims1

Dependent claims

A display device, comprising:

an organic electro luminescence (EL) panel;
a hard substrate which is in a range narrower than the organic EL panel at a back side of the organic EL panel,
wherein the hard substrate is in a region which is less than or equal to a lower half of the back side of the organic EL panel;
a first plurality of flexible printed circuit substrates which extend from an upper end of the hard substrate and are connected to the organic EL panel;
and
a second plurality of flexible printed circuit substrates which extend from a lower end of the hard substrate and are connected to the organic EL panel,
wherein a thickness of the organic EL panel is less than or equal to about several millimeters.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/415,064Filed 25 Jan 2017 · continuation

Priority

JP 2007-13711623 May 2007

Published

US 2017/0200912 A113 Jul 2017

Granted

1 May 2018

Term ends

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Classification19 codes

F16M 11/10
Allowing pivoting: around a horizontal axis
G06F 1/1601
Constructional details or arrangements: constructional details related to the housing of computer displays, e.g. of CRT monitors, of flat displays
G06F 1/20
Constructional details or arrangements: cooling means
H05K 1/028
Bendability or stretchability details: bending or folding regions of flexible printed circuits

Family

PCT/JP2008/059186Parent of this continuation · filed 20 May 2008

Application13/963,243Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Aug 2013

US 8,542,497 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 24 Sep 2013

Application14/710,398Parent of this continuation · filed 12 May 2015

US 9,066,414 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Jun 2015

US 2017/0200912 A1Pre-grant publication · published 13 Jul 2017

US 9,609,771 B2Parent of this continuation

Application12/601,155Parent of this continuation

US 2010/0195294 A1Published application

US 2013/0322033 A1Published application

US 2015/0313031 A1Published application

US 9,960,383 B2This patent

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Abstract

Claims1